Creatio Ex Nihilo

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Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul 9, 2004 - Religion - 214 pages
A unique study challenging the assumption that the doctrine of 'creation out of nothing' was inherited by Christianity along with the Jewish scriptures which the Church adopted.
 

Contents

1 The Problem of the Creation of the World in Hellenistic Judaism and EariyChristianity before the Gnostic Crisis in the Second Century
1
2 The Question of the Origin of the World in Christian Gnosticism
39
3 The Creation of the World in Basilides and the Valentinians
62
4 Christian and Platonist Cosmology
118
5 The Church Doctrine of Creatio Ex Nibilo
148
Recapitulation
179

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